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Carly Fox is a senior worker rights advocate at the Worker Justice Center of New York, and Rebecca Fuentes is lead organizer for the center. Both co-authored “MILKED: Immigrant Dairy Farmworkers in New York State.” By Carly Fox and Rebecca Fuentes | Special to Syracuse.com We didn’t personally know Ryan C. Ouellette, the dairy worker who was killed in […]

By Daniel Axelrod Times Herald-Record @dan_axelrod Posted Dec 7, 2017 at 8:42 PM Updated Dec 7, 2017 at 8:42 PM CITY OF NEWBURGH – Two dozen employees of cosmetics maker Verla International, LLC described unsafe working conditions to the staff of a Kingston nonprofit at a Thursday event designed to offer them career, health, safety and legal resources. The event at the Orange Works Career Center was […]

NEWBURGH — A 6-month investigation is being conducted by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration into working conditions at Verla International after a deadly explosion at the cosmetic manufacturer’s facility in New Windsor that killed one person and injured at least 125 others. Workers’ rights advocates say the factory had […]

We need your support in protecting and improving the rights of low-wage workers and farmworkers across New York State. The demand for our legal, educational and social services has grown exponentially under the Trump administration making our work particularly challenging in the past year. Still, our dedicated staff, volunteers and allies remain poised to advocate […]

Ninety-three percent of people working on upstate dairy farms are undocumented immigrants, according to a study released in June by The Worker Justice Center of New York, Workers’ Center of Central New York and partners.